he launches so many great society programs, medicare. so the first year, let's say, 1965 or let's say the first seven months, you say, this is a man who's going to leave his mark on history. you know, say say the moral arch bends justly but it bends slowly. i didn't say that. martin luther king says that. but you really feel that johnson tries to bend it. >> what i was struck by, when you watch some of the old footage, the language johnson used was a kind of language almost no american president had never used. it was so full of idealism, it was about ending poverty, lifting up every american, providing ed kachlgts it is the most expansive domestic, you know, idealism, that i can recall any president ever having. >> you know, and people working with him could hardly believe it, like richard good win who was a speechman for kennedy and then johnson brings him on board. asks him basically about civil rights. and johnson says, you know, are e fehring to the time he was 20 years old and he was teaching the mexican/american kids in a little t